I'm surprised the County Clerk did not inform you that the Divorce records are sealed by NYS law. Essentially the only persons that are allowed to purchase a copy of the decree are the former husband or wife, or a person with a New York State Court Order signed by a Judge. Here is a link that explains it. http://www.health.state.ny.us/vital_records/divorce.htm There is a bit of a work around but you can not do it from a remote location. If you REALLY have to have the information, some of it "might" be available in open records. Each of the County Clerks offices have a very large set of index books named "Index to Civil Records" or title close to that, I can't remember exactly. What you might get lucky and find are court transcripts of the messy stuff that led up to the divorce, like abuse, desertion, infidelity, child custody, the separation decree, or what ever. Those records are not sealed and you may look at them or get photocopies. It does take a lot of time because the indexes are surname only. So if you are working on AARDVARK vs AARDVARK you will find those records fast, but if it's JONES vs JONES, well you get the idea. I doubt that any of theses indexes have ever been filmed and I'm close to positive that none of them would be on-line, but you can learn a lot of the juicy details if you do find the cases. All parties are named, ages, dates of birth, addresses, witnesses, etc., etc. It will take boots on the ground though. Dick Hillenbrand On 2/10/07, lindawatsonsmith@aim.com <lindawatsonsmith@aim.com> wrote: > > Can someone tell me where I would need to mail a request for copies of > divorce papers in Delaware County? I need to order two different divorce > records that occured in 1934 and 1935. I have the dates. I mailed to the > county clerks office but they do not have the records. > > Thanks, Linda > ________________________________________________________________________ > Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading > spam and email virus protection. > To contact list administrator send email to nydelawa-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Dick Hillenbrand Upstate New York Genealogy website: http://www.unyg.com blog: http://ny-genes.blogspot.com/ member: Association of Professional Genealogists (APG)

I received the papers once before. Unfortunately, one, I can't find them and two, I can't remember where or who I sent the request to. It seems like it was through the list. Your right it was the transcript of the divorces. Linda -----Original Message----- From: nygenes@gmail.com To: nydelawa@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 3:13 AM Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] Divorce Papers I'm surprised the County Clerk did not inform you that the Divorce records are sealed by NYS law. Essentially the only persons that are allowed to purchase a copy of the decree are the former husband or wife, or a person with a New York State Court Order signed by a Judge. Here is a link that explains it. http://www.health.state.ny.us/vital_records/divorce.htm There is a bit of a work around but you can not do it from a remote location. If you REALLY have to have the information, some of it "might" be available in open records. Each of the County Clerks offices have a very large set of index books named "Index to Civil Records" or title close to that, I can't remember exactly. What you might get lucky and find are court transcripts of the messy stuff that led up to the divorce, like abuse, desertion, infidelity, child custody, the separation decree, or what ever. Those records are not sealed and you may look at them or get photocopies. It does take a lot of time because the indexes are surname only. So if you are working on AARDVARK vs AARDVARK you will find those records fast, but if it's JONES vs JONES, well you get the idea. I doubt that any of theses indexes have ever been filmed and I'm close to positive that none of them would be on-line, but you can learn a lot of the juicy details if you do find the cases. All parties are named, ages, dates of birth, addresses, witnesses, etc., etc. It will take boots on the ground though. Dick Hillenbrand On 2/10/07, lindawatsonsmith@aim.com <lindawatsonsmith@aim.com> wrote: > > Can someone tell me where I would need to mail a request for copies of > divorce papers in Delaware County? I need to order two different divorce > records that occured in 1934 and 1935. I have the dates. I mailed to the > county clerks office but they do not have the records. > > Thanks, Linda > ________________________________________________________________________ > Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading > spam and email virus protection. > To contact list administrator send email to nydelawa-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Dick Hillenbrand Upstate New York Genealogy website: http://www.unyg.com blog: http://ny-genes.blogspot.com/ member: Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) To contact list administrator send email to nydelawa-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection.